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Played Challenges

Satisfy the go linter - 2025 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #247 / 408
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 795 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #192 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 607 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #180 / 195
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 704 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #80 / 156
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32992 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #477 / 7283
Number of attempts: 18

Swap values - 4482 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #884 / 1245
Number of attempts: 7

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6030 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #430 / 1477
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18426 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #38 / 3799
Number of attempts: 6

Quote modules - 1019 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #105 / 260
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2437 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #226 / 562
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4645 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #379 / 1859
Number of attempts: 5

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 289 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #44 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 782 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #108 / 233
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10707 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1399 / 3013
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 1947 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #156 / 494
Number of attempts: 9

Split line with dots - 2111 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #223 / 624
Number of attempts: 6

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3475 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #547 / 1125
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3438 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #320 / 768
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7696 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #277 / 1838
Number of attempts: 10

Triangular Numbers - 88 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #20 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1448 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #43 / 370
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1433 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #74 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2839 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #485 / 688
Number of attempts: 3

Copy three lines - 2815 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #84 / 628
Number of attempts: 7

Array propagate - 312 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #69 / 111
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2257 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #195 / 733
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 133 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #56 / 65
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4695 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #826 / 1556
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 501 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #44 / 119
Number of attempts: 3

Number Sort - 291 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #39 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1014 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #85 / 298
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the bit - 111 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #55 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11263 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #641 / 4135
Number of attempts: 5

Team names - 1780 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #82 / 571
Number of attempts: 5

Make HTML List - 990 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #146 / 262
Number of attempts: 2

Todo list specification - 368 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #60 / 169
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 907 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #67 / 353
Number of attempts: 4

For all cases. - 127 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #54 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 239 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #67 / 129
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 838 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #110 / 206
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5449 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #438 / 1231
Number of attempts: 13

Adam's challenge - 917 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #109 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 801 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #172 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 255 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #35 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Fun With The Diagonal - 97 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #57 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7568 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #710 / 2055
Number of attempts: 4

Free hyphen! - 149 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #72 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 416 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 120
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 488 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #145 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #181 / 410
Number of attempts: 4

Mirrored text - 162 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #20 / 69
Number of attempts: 7

Scrambled numbers - 772 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #8 / 179
Number of attempts: 9

Align commas - 1041 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #110 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 278 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #76 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2113 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #401 / 645
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 715 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #221 / 350
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 322 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #53 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 492 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #87 / 129
Number of attempts: 6

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #93 / 431
Number of attempts: 11

Assign numbers to fields - 93 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #22 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 785 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #78 / 263
Number of attempts: 6

Swap assigned value - 566 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #88 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 556 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #19 / 153
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4191 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #217 / 1170
Number of attempts: 5

camel riding - 747 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #137 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Logging with key - 299 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #21 / 85
Number of attempts: 8

Space out the alphabet - 1600 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #82 / 435
Number of attempts: 11

Mute the second method of this script - 441 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #124 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Test everything! - 152 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #9 / 49
Number of attempts: 12

Condensed Cases - 762 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #51 / 232
Number of attempts: 8

Happy TvvO - 394 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #129 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15769 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #405 / 4119
Number of attempts: 8

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #10 / 25
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3125 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #343 / 1114
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 966 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #44 / 343
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 223 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #26 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #209 / 292
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1959 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #209 / 574
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10557 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #963 / 3643
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #204 / 685
Number of attempts: 11

Letter case trickery - 1558 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #20 / 501
Number of attempts: 8

quotes inside quotes - 3051 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #922 / 1050
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12769 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #674 / 3925
Number of attempts: 9

Hole-in-one - 982 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #182 / 299
Number of attempts: 3

Word frequency alignment - 250 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #102 / 148
Number of attempts: 6

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 75 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #19 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 410 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #115 / 180
Number of attempts: 5

The name of the game - 636 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #231 / 348
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 392 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 47
Position: #89 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2383 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #465 / 721
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 1995 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #146 / 631
Number of attempts: 7

Remove noise from HTTP log - 666 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #119 / 263
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 4963 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #630 / 1712
Number of attempts: 5

Make it more readable - 1915 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #301 / 628
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1834 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #445 / 629
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1177 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #166 / 387
Number of attempts: 9

A Simple One - 957 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #468 / 624
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 360 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #59 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 599 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #327 / 382
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 476 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #133 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 437 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #135 / 224
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3041 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #298 / 672
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 11708 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #418 / 3431
Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

Alphabet soup - 392 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 501 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 289 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Add string initializers to an enum - 782 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

xrandr outputs and dashes - 607 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Arijus
Twitter: @argshook

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Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Played Challenges

Satisfy the go linter - 2025 entries

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 795 entries

xrandr outputs and dashes - 607 entries

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 704 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32992 entries

Swap values - 4482 entries

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6030 entries

One number per line - 18426 entries

Quote modules - 1019 entries

Swap values inside brackets - 2437 entries

V to the i - 4645 entries

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 289 entries

Add string initializers to an enum - 782 entries

Add semicolons - 10707 entries

Bad Copy Syntax - 1947 entries

Split line with dots - 2111 entries

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3475 entries

Com(m)a Trouble - 3438 entries

Box it - 7696 entries

Triangular Numbers - 88 entries

multiple cursor alternative - 1448 entries

From argument to object - 1433 entries

Every other line - 2839 entries

Copy three lines - 2815 entries

Array propagate - 312 entries

Extract argument from function - 2257 entries

Start coding format - 133 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4695 entries

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 501 entries

Number Sort - 291 entries

comment and uncomment code inline - 1014 entries

Flip the bit - 111 entries

Just the middle - 11263 entries

Team names - 1780 entries

Make HTML List - 990 entries

Todo list specification - 368 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 907 entries

For all cases. - 127 entries

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 239 entries

Missing Library and a Typo - 838 entries

Basic renumbering - 5449 entries

Adam's challenge - 917 entries

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 801 entries

Nesting SASS - 255 entries

Fun With The Diagonal - 97 entries

Vice versa - 7568 entries

Free hyphen! - 149 entries

Paragraph sort - 416 entries

Paragraph breaks - 488 entries

comments galore - 970 entries

Mirrored text - 162 entries

Scrambled numbers - 772 entries

Align commas - 1041 entries

Generate a list of numbers - 278 entries

One to Ten - 2113 entries

Delete to the end of the current line - 715 entries

Remove quotes after first field - 322 entries

move titles next to url, in quotes - 492 entries

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Assign numbers to fields - 93 entries

Mirror Symmetry - 785 entries

Swap assigned value - 566 entries

From A to B - 556 entries

Collect List - 4191 entries

camel riding - 747 entries

Logging with key - 299 entries

Space out the alphabet - 1600 entries

Mute the second method of this script - 441 entries

Test everything! - 152 entries

Condensed Cases - 762 entries

Happy TvvO - 394 entries

I forgot quotes - 15769 entries

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries

-a-b-c- - 3125 entries

Count both ways - 966 entries

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 223 entries

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Arijus
Twitter: @argshook